Life is like a cake

A perfect cake. Fluffy and flavorful. Different ingredients. Combined, mixed, and baked just right. Each ingredient is crucial to the creation.  

Skip the sugar, and your cake tastes bitter. Skip the baking powder, and your cake falls flat. 

Some ingredients may not taste good on their own. But they are essential for the cake to rise. 

The same is true in life. 

Each situation in our life is needed for a complete experience. 

Some may not be pleasant. They may even be miserable. 

But they are essential for us to grow. 

Skipping less flavorful experiences will keep you from rising the same way skipping an ingredients leaves your cake flat. 

Life is like a cake. All ingredients are needed 

to rise just right. 

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Life is Like a Cake is part of the  Big Little Life Lessons series. With a different approach to bedtime stories, Big Little Life Lessons brings you the thoughts, theories, and teaching for children growing up and adults growing out. Our human virtues tend to take a backseat in a world that speeds up and speeds past us as we try to make sense of the constant noises of everyday life. These big little life lessons aim to bring perspective to everyday experiences and helps you connect with your kids while connecting
back to yourself after a long day of distraction and routine.

Dealing with a world that is ever changing requires reminders of how life can be simple if we let it. 

It’s lessons we keep learning. Lessons we keep living. 

A small seed in a big pot

A Big Little Life Lesson about growth

A small seed in a big pot. 

That’s how it all begins. 

A seed becomes a branch, becomes a leaf, becomes a plant. 

A natural progression as small becomes big. 

But as the expansion continues, the growing comes to a halt. 

By the lack of space. By the lack of soil.  

The pot that helped us grow from small to big, the walls that used to hold us up, are now boxing us in.

A pot too small. 

Soil without nutrients.

Nowhere to go. No way to grow. 

Once we run out of room to expand, the only way to keep growing is to plant ourselves in a bigger pot. 

If we want to keep growing. 

If we want to keep going. 

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A small seed on a big pot is part of the  Big Little Life Lessons series. With a different approach to bedtime stories, Big Little Life Lessons brings you the thoughts, theories, and teaching for children growing up and adults growing out. Our human virtues tend to take a backseat in a world that speeds up and speeds past us as we try to make sense of the constant noises of everyday life. These big little life lessons aim to bring perspective to everyday experiences and helps you connect with your kids while connecting
back to yourself after a long day of distraction and routine.

Dealing with a world that is ever changing requires reminders of how life can be simple if we let it. 

It’s lessons we keep learning. Lessons we keep living.

Up. Up. Stop.

A Big Little Life Lesson about success

When you’re climbing the ladder, 

your vision is pointed in one direction. 

Up. Up. Up. 

Take one step. Then another. And another. 

As the climb continues, we’re told to 

keep our eyes on the prize. 

Bigger. Better. Higher. 

But this aim for more keeps us from seeing the success already around us. 

Up. Up. 

Stop. 

On the way to success, 

you don’t always have to look up. 

It’s okay to look around. 

To appreciate what you have. 

How far you’ve come. 

It’s ok to just be. 

It’s ok to take a look around to see.  

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Up. Up. Stop. is part of the  Big Little Life Lessons series. With a different approach to bedtime stories, Big Little Life Lessons brings you the thoughts, theories, and teaching for children growing up and adults growing out. Our human virtues tend to take a backseat in a world that speeds up and speeds past us as we try to make sense of the constant noises of everyday life. These big little life lessons aim to bring perspective to everyday experiences and helps you connect with your kids while connecting
back to yourself after a long day of distraction and routine.

Dealing with a world that is ever changing requires reminders of how life can be simple if we let it. 

It’s lessons we keep learning. Lessons we keep living.